This was originally posted on XpertHR’s Employment Intelligence Blog which I highly recommend! If I could change one thing about HR… I would dismantle the Human Resources department and rebuild it as a Talent Acquisition and Retention (TAR) department. To do this, the majority of the current day-to-day tasks performed by HR would be allocated to managers across the organization. In my experience, the role of the HR department within most organizations today includes the [...]
While it’s natural to be swept up in the hype of new technology and the unending quest for increased efficiency, it’s critical that we don’t forget the basics. In reality, increasing operational efficiency is subject to the law of diminishing returns. At some point, those increases will come at the expense of effectiveness and quality. This is just as true for your talent acquisition activities as it is for anything else. To be highly effective, [...]
If you can’t hire the right person, then don’t hire anyone. Is this standard practice yet? The best managers and organizations know this all too well, and avoid the problems associated with square pegs and round holes. What would happen to your business if you only made offers to candidates that were the exact right fit for the job? Related Posts:4 Thoughts on Recruiting During the HolidaysLessons Learned in Talent Acquisition and Management from Successful [...]
In this post on RecruitingBlogs.com, Jeff Dickey-Chasins puts forth the following question: Is social recruiting a symptom – or a solution? Jeff does an excellent job of quickly defining and arguing the two sides, though I don’t believe either answer can fully define how social recruiting has developed. I don’t actually believe that social recruiting, as Jeff has identified it, actually exists in any meaningful way at the moment. The most common way that employers [...]
As we move into November and the holiday season is close at hand, it seemed like a good time to share some First Friday thoughts specific to the realm of talent acquisition. For the decade or so that I’ve been working with HR and recruiting leaders, it has been my experience that this time of year normally presents a slowdown our stoppage in recruiting activities, as many are holding off on their budgets until 2011 [...]